From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 02:56:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018E316A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:56:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drizzle.sasknow.net (drizzle.sasknow.net [204.83.220.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F0143D2D for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:56:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from hsdbsk64-110-219-74.sasknet.sk.ca (hsdbsk64-110-219-74.sasknet.sk.ca [64.110.219.74]) by drizzle.sasknow.net (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0O2uivf098737; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:56:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:56:43 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Peter Jeremy In-Reply-To: <20050123202618.GC241@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Message-ID: <20050123172637.S644@coyote.ry.ca> References: <20050122005608.H807@coyote.ry.ca> <20050123202618.GC241@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Virus-Status: Clean, ClamAV version devel-20041222, clamav-milter version 0.80aa on drizzle.sasknow.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.254 required=7 tests=MSGID_PINE=-2.1 HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR=4.4,BAYES_00=-4.9,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL=2.0 RCVD_IN_DSBL=3.8,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL=0.1 BAYES_LOW_AND_TZ_NEAR=-7.0,AWL=-1.5 autolearn=ham version=3.000001- cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS TV FM 7135 (Philips 7135) card supported by bktr(4)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:56:52 -0000 Peter Jeremy wrote to Ryan Thompson on Mon, Jan 24th at 07:26 +1100: > On Sat, 2005-Jan-22 13:43:10 -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: > >> I'm toying with a known-good ASUS TV FM 7135 card, which is using the >> Philips 7135 chipset (according to their web site, and the stamped chip >> on the board). Just for kicks, I've added the following to my kernel: > ... >> Does anyone know how easily this card could be supported? > > I have a Tevion tuner using the same chipset. > > The bad news is that programming details do not appear to be available > from Philips and there's no official FreeBSD support. AFAIK, the > chips are nothing like the Brooktree chips. Yep, I think that's safe to say now. > The good news is that there an unofficial driver at > http://download.purpe.com/ that works (for me) on 5.3. There's also > Linux support (which may be useful for ideas). Thank you! The driver works better than the Windows one. :-) At least, the configuration makes more sense. The author (Rohit Jalan) will also receive my thanks. :-) - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-244-7037 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America